LGBTQ activist calls to "normalize slapping transphobes in 2024" including women. This upward trend of LGBTQ and Trans activists calling for v*olen*e against those with opposing views is incredibly alarming. pic.twitter.com/65ZAhJU9YH
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 14, 2024
Any feeling that the electric vehicle market was overhyped was confirmed this week when Hertz took the off-ramp on the EV highway. The car-rental giant plans to unload 20,000 cars, about a third of its American EV fleet, and make up the shortfall with regular gasoline cars.
Weak rental demand, high maintenance costs and low resale prices were behind the about-face. When Hertz began loading up on EVs – all of them Teslas – in 2021, the move was seen as a vote of confidence in zero-tailpipe-emission motoring for the masses. The reversal signals the opposite and Hertz is not alone. EV sales in North American, Europe and elsewhere are rising at ever-diminishing rates and China, the biggest EV producer, is stuffing thousands of unwanted battery-powered cars in fields, where they are left to rot.
A favorite that I kept…
One of Geert Wilders' old videos about Muhammad that was banned from YouTube despite being based on 100% facts.
"Muhammad is a narcissist, a [molester], a mass murderer, a terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman, a rapist, a… pic.twitter.com/jfCvZ1wxyD
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) January 14, 2024
The continuing lack of transparency about UFOs in the US is causing concern not only about the existence of aliens but about the psychological fallout of uncovering a conspiracy
If you thought that we were about to finally get the truth about UFOs, think again. At the end of last year, a US government bill that would have mandated the controlled release of all classified documents and artefacts relating to UFOs was significantly watered down at the last minute so that it would get through Congress.
Interest in unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), the new term for UFOs, reignited in June 2023 when ex-US intelligence agency whistleblower David Grusch told the Debrief website that during his official duties he had discovered the US had indeed been retrieving spacecraft of non-human origin for decades. The claims led to a congressional hearing, in which Grusch and others described what they had gleaned of this super-secret project, or seen with their own eyes during military service. Their testimonies resulted in the new Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Disclosure Act, authored by a bipartisan group of five elected representatives, led by Democrat majority leader Chuck Schumer and Republican senator Mike Rounds.
Questions swirl around new ‘jellyfish’ UAP footage
I know my views on UFO’s are not wildly popular in these parts however I am sticking to them.
All questions are valid at this point.
Did the USA make a technological leap they’re inching closer to revealing?
Is it all disinformation? A combination of truth and lies to keep us off balance?
There are reasonably valid grounds to withhold information from the public such as national security. However the potential for a huge economic windfall awaiting anyone who can reverse engineer the “found technology” may be the real motivation hence all the chatter about unaccountable private contractors being used to shield the truth from the public.
I wish I had the proof to convince myself 100%.
Still I believe we live in interesting times and so I do not discount the existence of UFO’s.
Hamas on Sunday night published videos of Gaza hostages Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, showing the first signs of life of all three hostages.
The video shows them introducing themselves and asking the Israeli government to return them home.
Hamas said the fate of the three would be revealed on Monday.
#Breaking: Tonight (Sunday night) #Hamas published videos of #Israel's hostages in #Gaza, Noa Argamani, 26, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, showing the first signs of life of all three hostages.
In the propaganda video Hamas warns "Tomorrow we will inform you of their… pic.twitter.com/0hCshHB2DS
— Matthew RJ Brodsky (@MattRJBrodsky) January 14, 2024
The Trudeau government was warned that their rapid push for higher and higher immigration numbers was having a negative impact on housing and health care across the country. A presentation to the government in 2022 warned of the problems but rather than rethinking or adjusting their policy they pushed ahead.
The concerning consequences of the prioritisation of DEI over almost everything else have become disturbingly clear
In Politics and the English Language, George Orwell’s essay on the moral harm done by linguistic fudges and jargon, we learn how the powerful use grandiose, empty phrases to hide their true meaning, or simply to cover the fact that there is none. “The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness,” he noted. And when multi-syllabic, Latinate words of murky meaning are favoured over shorter, clearer turns of phrase, the results are often politically sinister.
The results are in. Taiwan’s voters stood up to China and all its war talk of recent weeks.
Vice President Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party won the presidency on Saturday in a three-way race with 40.1% of the vote. Hsiao Bi-khim, recently Taipei’s representative in Washington, was elected vice president.
New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih, of the opposition Kuomintang received 33.5%, and Ko Wen-je of the new Taiwan People’s Party came in third with 26.5%.
Police swooped to stop Pro-Palestinian protestors shutting down the London Stock Exchange on Monday after a plot to cause chaos was exposed by a Daily Express investigation.
Detectives launched an emergency operation after being passed details of how activists were intending to launch a co-ordinated plan to prevent the building opening for trading.
If successfully executed this would have thrown global financial markets into turmoil.
The former German chancellor Angela Merkel had a reputation as being a steady hand at the wheel. In her 16 years in office, she was famous for sitting things out rather than taking action. Her pledge to voters was that their lives would continue in peace and affluence and that they had nothing to worry about.
That has turned out to be a fallacy, but past expectations live on.
Berlin.
In a pro-Hamas demo in Berlin, an assorted group of Antifa, socialists, Turks & Muslims get a damn good shoeing from the German police.
Hint, hint @metpoliceuk. pic.twitter.com/ILtIjOKPsQ
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 14, 2024
Hertz announced to much fanfare on Oct. 25, 2021, that it planned to buy 100,000 Teslas. “Electric vehicles are now mainstream, and we’ve only just begun to see rising global demand and interest,” then-CEO Mark Fields said. The share prices of both companies popped, and Tesla’s market capitalization surged past $1 trillion, exceeding the valuations of nearly all traditional automakers combined.
C-suite executives praised the announcement. “Kudos to Mark Fields and the Hertz team for steering a great American brand into the electric and connected future,” Ford CEO Jim Farley tweeted. Hertz had emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy only a few months earlier. It was betting on electric vehicles to power its revival.
The problem for the Libs is that they’ve created serious problems they can’t solve such as the housing and affordabilty crisis.
Canadians are hurting and will continue to hurt for years to come.
They know the Liberals are to blame.
It’s a scene as old as celluloid: a shadowy figure named Luca Brasi or John Wick or Barry Berkman lurking in the darkness, outfitted with sinister intent and nifty weapons, effortlessly committing a murder for cash, animus or cold political calculations.
Whether they’re called hit men, contract killers or assassins, figures who kill for a living are a staple of Hollywood thrillers — and, by extension, the public imagination.
But experts in law enforcement and international espionage say that murders-for-hire are notoriously difficult to successfully arrange, let alone get away with.
Ryan Maue is a US weather and climate guy. From early last week he was forecasting the incoming polar vortex would bring abysmal cold to virtually all of North America. Unlike climate activists, he’s not an alarmist except when as he jokingly put it, the real ‘climate emergency’ that would unfold would be temperature in the minus 40s — which is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit — and colder!
It’s the bane of modern city living. Thousands of homeless people are setting up makeshift tent cities or sleeping in public parks. It’s not only unsightly; it’s dangerous both for residents and the homeless.
